Step 5: Attaching the skate to the shoe.

Step 6: Put them on and start shredding!

Put on your shoes and tie them up and your ready to tear up the streets. The skates are quite slippery on plywood, carpets, asphalt, metal, and a who...

Hey everyone!

I am going to show you how to make your very own pair of Slide Skates. Slide Skating is a new sport that I thought of. It allows the user to do really cool looking tricks like grinds, without having a lot of experience in extreme sports.

I want to apologize for the quality of the pictures because my digital camera is broken, but hopefully a video will make up the difference.

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Step 1: Gather the Materials

This project does not require any hard to find items. All you need is a plastic folder (must be very smooth), a pair of scissors, a sharpie, a pair of flat soled shoes (like skating shoes), and some duct tape.

Step 2: Prepare the folder.

Take one of your shoes and place it in the middle of the folder. Using the sharpie, trace the shoe onto one side of the folder. Flip the folder over and take the other shoe and trace that as well.

Step 3: Trace the trace

Trace a second shape around the previous trace. measure out about 1/4 to 1/2 inch and follow the shape all the way around. Turn the folder over and repeat with the other trace.

Step 4: Cutting the traces.

Cut out the 2 shapes that you drew on the folder. Be careful and try not to leave any rough edges on the shapes. Make sure to round out every edge.

You are going to think i'm crazy But for 10 years I had dreams while sleeping of being able to slide as if I was on a cushion of air . It would be like skating with roller skates but instead i was just sliding. It was great on corners or I could go into a slide and go past the corner. Of course I would wake up just flippin' out because it had been so much fun. The closest I came to making the skate was thinking about an all ball bearing surface on the bottom of the shoe. But that gave me nothing but a slippery shoe. SO I just forgot about it and stopped having those dreams. I have recently come up with another method which i'm working on, But have to keep it secret of course. Have you tried those furniture moving discs , that you can get at the builder's store. they slide pretty good.

WHen you are trying to attach things to the bottom of your VANS you can use Big Head rivets that you can buy in various sizes at a "Fastenal" store. they have all sorts of fasteners for industry. including adhesives for all sorts of combinations. Don't ever stop trying to get an Idea off the ground But don't sell your house to do it.

there ais already a commercially marketed version of these, called Soap Shoes. I however, like your idea more. my only modification would be to use flexible epoxy to attach some acrylic sheets, instead of the weaker folders. Great idea though!

Nice idea! Only one problem, it's really hard to get going fast with these! Try this, cut/wear down the toe on a sharp angle, like 30 or 40 degrees. That way you can run on the toe and still slide flat footed. Maybe even through some grip tape on the toe area. Something like this:

Hey my name is matt I just made the shoes THEY R SIK!!!!!!!!! THNX SOOOOOOO MUCH Great instructable How do u get them to super slide really far eg on carpet etc? Can u plz email me at volcombaby_221@hotmail.com Thanks heaps Matt